He who will begin by merely _imagining_ that he has within him a spirit of beauty and light, which is to subdue and extinguish the other or all that is in him of what is low, commonplace, and mean, may bring this idea to exert a marvelous influence.

He can increase the conception, and give it reality, by treating it with forethought and will, by suggestion, until it gives marvellous result.

This better self may be regarded as a guardian angel, in any case it is a power by means of which we can learn mysteries.

It is also our Conscience, born of the perception of Ideals.
The Ideal or Spirit thus evolved should be morally pure, else the experimenter will find, as did the magicians of old, that all who dealt with any but good spirits, fell into the hands of devils, just as ALLAN KARDEC says is the case with Spiritualists.

But to speak as clearly as I can, he who succeeds in winning or creating a higher Self within himself, and fascinating it by sympathy, will find that he has, within moral limits, a strange power of fascinating those who are in sympathy with him.
Whereupon many will say "of course." Like and like together strike.
Birds of a feather flock together.